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Glypher - the fastest way to identify a goods, employees or any other objects.
Glypher (stands from "glyph") is a special 2D code scanner. It's the mobile app for iOS and Android that allows to scan glyphs - 2d codes with very low resolution.
The main difference between such glyph and QR-code (or any tradition 2D code) is the extended scanning possibilities. This type of 2D code is intensively used in robotics for the same reason: easy to recognize - easy to scan.
Glypher provide a new way to identify a goods, storage places in the warehouses, employees, etc. Author has implemented and meticulously tested such an approach in industrial environment (about a year ago) - the results are amazing. In the most of the cases you don't need the scanners anymore (or pocket data terminals). All you need - just a smartphone with Glypher app (or a tablet in some cases). And it shouldn't be very expensive device. Even the cheapest chinese Android phone with 1 megapixel camera is appropriate for Glypher.
How it's works?
Standard glyph has 7x7 pixels dimension with black border around. So we have 49 bits. 4 bits used to identify rotation angle, and 8 other bits used for CRC8. Eventualy left only 37 bits for data.
To allow using different objects types 2 bits are reserved for code type (so we have four options, for example, goods, packs, employees, and something else). Last 35 bits are used to encode the unique identifier of some instance. By the way, it's the integer number from 1 up to 34 359 738 367, much more than enough for any type of objects.
So, you print the stickers for your objects and create web application that runs inside Glypher. When glyph is scanned app passes the data to your web app or opens special web page where scanned data is the part of URL.
How to start
Once you install Glypher on your device you have an option to open test web application:
To see how it's works you can use this examples of glyphs for testing Glypher app with the default test page. Test web app shows scanned data and code type. But when you scan the third glyph (1 167 105) mobile app will stop scanning.
Here is the GitHub repository for GlyphsCreator(C# WinForms application). App alows to create and show any standard glyph supported by Glypher:
You can use source code in your application, or port it to other languages, it would be great to collect sources for Javascript, C++ and Java.
To create the front end part of your web application you should open this test page and check source code. For simplicity all necessary scripts are embeded and separated into to part: glypher.js - base framework and specific script for current web page.
Find out more about "Glypher". Check this video.
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